Angel Reese's regular season ended on a good note, as she was awarded the SEC Player of the Year distinction on Tuesday. The star of the LSU Lady Tigers capped another dominating season with another award after winning the 2022-23 national title.
The "Bayou Barbie" was congratulated by one of her commercial partners, the sporting goods and athletic apparel brand Reebok. The Boston headquartered company posted a picture of Reese in Reebok attire with the following caption:
"PLAYER OF THE YEAR. The awards keep stacking up!"
Angel Reese joined Mikaylah Williams as the second LSU player to win a postseason award. Williams was given the SEC Freshman of the Year award. The Lady Tigers became the first team since South Carolina in 2015 to have the Player of the Year and the Freshman of the Year.
Reese led the SEC in scoring and rebounding (19.1 and 13.0 per game, respectively), the first player to achieve the feat in back-to-back seasons since Vanderbilt’s Wendy Scholtens in the 1989-90 season. She also had 20 double doubles, taking her total to 54 through two seasons at Baton Rouge.
Angel Reese's NIL valuation of $1.7 million ranks her second in women's college basketball
Angel Reese hasn't just been successful on the court. She is valued at $1.7 million in NIL deals, per On3, ranking eighth among student-athletes. Among women, she ranks third and is second among women's college basketball players. Her latest reported NIL deal is from late January, when she partnered with Beats to gift all the LSU Lady Tigers roster brand-new headphones.
Until last month, she ranked first before dropping the top spot to Caitlin Clark. The Iowa Hawkeyes star, valued at $3.1 million in NIL deals by On3, was propelled to national stardom after breaking the men's and women's college basketball scoring records.
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